Phenom Marcelo Mayer called up. Is a Roman Anthony call-up imminent?

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Where is the urgency?! Baseballl Brett joins!  Brett: "I thought Breslow gave him (Alex Cora) a really good roster." #MLB  Phenom Marcelo Mayer called up. Is a Roman Anthony call-up imminent?

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00:00this boston red sox morning brett good morning greg how are you well i'm fine wiggy taking a

00:07little shrapnel from will middlebrooks over his lead this morning i don't know if he caught that

00:12or not well well well deserved yeah i was right up until i was right up with wiggy and wiggy i

00:17love you i was right up with you blaming ellis score on most things but then you said bring

00:22the infield in with two outs and i just couldn't get behind that all right let me ask you this

00:27were you all city in high school three sports no no no was you all city in baseball i was all city

00:34catcher he lettered he just told you he lettered in three sports yeah but just lettering doesn't

00:38mean anything anybody you lettered in high school lettering means you just was on the team greg was

00:44a greg was a tremendous rebounder correct who are you placing this current situation who do you who

00:50do you place most of the blame on yeah i i would tell you alex core would be would take most of it

00:57for me i don't think he's had a good year managing at all not not he just made like really curious moves

01:06um i thought breslow gave him a really good roster at the start of the year um i i think there were some

01:15flaws still there but i think all teams are flawed i don't think any team is perfect i thought breslow

01:20put them in a really good situation i think i think alex scores had a really really poor year

01:25managing i think he's done better with worse teams uh because i think there's more talent here

01:31the i was incredibly excited going into the year i've become increasingly frustrated every game that

01:37goes on um and listening to your interview last thursday like sam had to have said there's urgency

01:46probably three or four times three or four times during that interview what have they done

01:51to create urgency what have what has what has the either the front office or alex or what what

01:57urgency moves have they made to put themselves in a better spot none like none right they have the

02:06number one prospect in baseball sitting in the minors they have trevor story who needs to you know

02:13not play and they just keep rolling out the same exact roster without making moves the only reason

02:19marcello myers here is because alex bregman got hurt and alex bregman had the same injury three or

02:25four years ago when he was out 58 games with the same now no two injuries are the same but that same

02:30quad injury or whatever it is he was out 58 games so it and he was your second best hitter you know

02:38the team you know team leader so that that that that hurts and there's just there's no urgency

02:44they can make a couple moves and and stay in it but if they continue down this path greg

02:51it's just going to get worse now they're now in fourth place seven and a half out and they're just

02:56digging themselves an incredible hole without much um much you know unless they make some urgency

03:03moves i just feel like they're just going to keep rolling it out and the urgency brett too you could

03:08also talk about crochet's last start 85 pitches the bullpens totally and completely taxed and you take

03:15them out you know i just everything about this season feels like it's like we'll just wait around

03:20the red sox have the entire city to themselves for about another two months and they are squandering

03:27that's the frustrating part that is you're 100 right that's the frustrating part and they are

03:33just squandering it right i mean you have all eyes on you the selfish get knocked out the patriots are

03:38still kind of in a rebuild but they don't start camp for another you know month and a half two months

03:42and you have you have the ability to do that run that they did where they where they went to the

03:47alcs and they have you know they kind of got all the fans back in they have that ability right now

03:52and they're just not taking advantage of it is so is it is there any chance and now this is this is um

04:01you know this is a wild card or or one of those things you throw out there and see if it sticks is

04:06there any chance brett that if they're in this position come the trade deadline and it looks like

04:12they might be out of it that the organization maybe says we move on from core or because of

04:19the extension are they kind of stuck to them well well yeah i i think they if a if a team president

04:29tells me they have urgency i would definitely tell you that that would be on the table but i'm not

04:34seeing any urgency so i would tell you that i don't think that they do that right i think they just did

04:39they just did the deal with him mid-season last year so i don't think he's going anywhere

04:45but chris has talked about this chris has talked about this for a couple years now where

04:50they didn't have talent so alex core became the face of the organization right and that was

04:56last last year so during that time last year i think fans would have revolted if they didn't do that

05:02and they let alex core go because he was considered greg the face of the organization

05:06because they just didn't have a lot of talent right and i think i think chris has spoke on that

05:11in the past where who what talent did they have no they have alex core and they kept rolling him out

05:16there to be like you know kind of the front-facing man of the organization um and i think if they

05:23didn't sign that contract then or at you know at the end of the year i think they would have caught a lot

05:27um grief from the fans on that right but now they have talent so something something stinks something

05:35has to go wrong devers doesn't want to play first now can devers play third base that would open up

05:40roman anthony coming up and being a an impact bat for you nope can't do that okay so now they're they're

05:46just kind of stuck they have they have their dh their former dh sitting in no marriage land and

05:52they're paying him another 60 million dollars what's a what's 14 million for alex core it doesn't

05:57count against the the tax it's just money why is alex core is so mad about the graduation but

06:03seemingly okay with everything else like i understand you're pissed that people say things about you and

06:09decisions you make off the field but like he was far more enraged about people questioning his decision

06:16to miss the game that he's been after any of these losses it's exactly why lebron was pissed at

06:20stephen a smith it's talking about you being a dad your family yeah and even cora said it cora goes

06:25listen there are bigger things than baseball like you know what i mean and family so he was more mad

06:29about that right you know like your your team is pissing away a season right now you you have the most

06:35one run losses in major league baseball with 14 that is at the feet of the manager of the team

06:41all right brett yeah i wish all right greg talk to you guys thanks all right wish the i wish this

06:47the state of the franchise were better but it's not nope but you said that was it you who said who

06:54or curtis asked the question i guess earlier i know you did i mean how many teams in this city

07:01would keep a manager who has finished last in three of the last four or three of the last five or what

07:08four of the last four whatever it is right like i i mean and then courtney brought at some point you

07:14have to ask if he's the real problem right and then courtney brought up an even better piece than

07:19that because she said not only is he still the manager but they extended him yeah they extended

07:24him but also if you're john henry and you're hearing that your players love him and i before i even say

07:30this like what what happened at the liverpool parade was terrible but john henry and linda are

07:35at the liverpool parade enjoying a like a wonderful success for one of their other teams

07:42so do they care like do they care right now about the red sox record yeah they do because they gave

07:48they went out they signed crochet they gave him money they got bregman yeah no i i get his job as an

07:54owner but i'm saying you're also keeping some players who love alex cora happy so if you're john

07:59henry do you really care about wins or losses or do you care about the people that you're paying millions

08:03of dollars you know being happy because you have other success in your life i think he cares about

08:08wins and losses he's he's just not one of those face forward type of owners well he is because he

08:14went and spoke to rafael devers after rafael no i'm saying like like he hot he re-signed cora

08:20that he did everything you wanted if you're a diehard you know socks fan he did everything you wanted to do

08:27and he even you know brought cora back or extended cora who some people felt like you know that he was

08:35one of the better managers in baseball so there's really no blame in his feet there's i don't think

08:40there's any blame at sam or breslow's feet it comes down to cora with some of the decisions that

08:45he makes in game yeah and i think big reason we all celebrated myself included uh the cora extension

08:53was that cora we thought would have a bunch of options and if he signed a new three-year deal in

08:59the middle of the year which was surprising to all of us at the time it meant to me that they had

09:05given him assurances payroll wise that they were going to invest that cora re-signing and extending

09:11meant the organization was going in a different direction and they did and they went and got the guy

09:16that he wanted right right and so you know and alex bregman so a guy that we all thought was

09:22embodied the fans urgency to win has not resembled that at all this year at all he didn't want to

09:30talk to devers about the move he doesn't want to you know have crochet on the mound over 85 pitches

09:36he doesn't want to bring mayor up or roman anthony until he's forced to like i just i agree with

09:44wiggy 100 on and we're sitting here talking about a game that you lost yesterday and for all the

09:51baseball people out there want to be baseball people that are questioning me on where your third

09:54baseman should be if your third baseman is in the right position we might not be having this

10:00conversation and that's pure in part because you decide to keep the guy back and play him further

10:08off of the grass but what do i know right middle brooks is mad now what do i know

10:14you lost and everybody's telling me what he did was right but you lost the game because of a play

10:19the third baseman could not make they need a chick-fil-a party

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